Most versatile extreme metal singer?

One of the vocalist on my list is from a death metal band. They have some of most extreme vocals on earth and lowest actually. How is a solid death metal vocalist not extreme ?

Acid Bath is extreme, especially 'When The Kite String Pops'

Cathedral,Solitude Aeturnus are probably the heaviest metal bands. How is that not extreme in some form or it's own by pushing bounds of what instruments,etc... are capable ?

Metal bands can be extreme in different forms. King Diamond is over the top vocally,musically being more extreme than most metal bands. Why do you always have to have a problem with me ?.


Zack said:
Common Dodens... you know who you're dealing with. What did you expect?
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Stop drooling.
 
Anneke van Giersbergen is from The Gathering. Not extreme. Extremely sexy, maybe, but not extreme.
 
Life Sucks said:
AA Nemtheanga of Primordial, hands down. He has a semi-clean voice that can be haunting, epic, or emotional. And he has a wicked black metallish shriek.
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Great vocalist. I swear sometimes he sounds like a more metal Eddie Vedder :lol:

I remember telling you that and you disagreed.
 
Life Sucks said:
AA Nemtheanga of Primordial, hands down. He has a semi-clean voice that can be haunting, epic, or emotional. And he has a wicked black metallish shriek.
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I completely forgot about him. Another awesome vocalist, indeed.
 
For Dodens....

Lorin Cook is the EX vocalist from the bizarre death metal band Wicked Innocence from Utah. His vocals are very diverse and low. Lorin also expirimented with clean vocals which was bizarre over such heavy music. WI formed sometime around 1990. If you like Demilich,Demigod or even old Cephalic Carnage you'd enjoy them. They released their first fullength called 'Omnipotence' in 1995 on Napalm Records. Omnipotence is their best album by a long shot. I suggest checking it out. If you can't find it and seem interested I could always upload it for you if you stop being a more bitter asshole than me :D

Robert Lowe is from the progressive doom metal band Solitude Aeturnus who formed in 1988. SA is from Texas.

Dax Riffs is from the classic Acid Bath, sure you've heard of them. 'When The Kite String Pops' is extreme and so are the vocals.


CAIRATH said:
Anneke van Giersbergen is from The Gathering. Not extreme. Extremely sexy, maybe, but not extreme.
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She's incredibly sexy,diverse and extreme in her own way imo especially for a female vocalist. She sang over doomy heavy guitars on 'Mandylion' and it blended perfect. That move itself could be extreme in some people's eyes. People in music are testing different blends,etc.. someone taking the initial step to try it is extreme. Treading new,different ground is more extreme than someone screaming into a mic imo. Expirimentation is as extreme as you can get.

What's extreme is subjective and that's when opinions turn into asshole. What's extreme to someone is different.

I mean fast drumming can be extreme,slow drumming can be extreme with patterns,fills. Clean vocals or dirty vocals can be extreme and equally extreme imo. A lot of growling,raspy vocalists are not extreme to me anymore but are to a lot of people. No one's wrong on things like this. The person is asking for extreme vocalists in metal, it's alittle vague on the bounds of the question.

Fast drums can be extreme and so can slow drums with innovating fills,patterns.

Extremeness is subjective on anything.
 
The Greys said:
Great vocalist. I swear sometimes he sounds like a more metal Eddie Vedder :lol:

I remember telling you that and you disagreed.
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A much more metal Eddie Vedder with a thick Irish accent and a tendency to go into black metal-ish shrieks on occasion.
 
Oh, and the vocalist of the band currently in my sig is very versatile. He has very expressive death growls and good, gloomy clean vocals on occasion. Even his spoken word vocals sound cool. No small feat, as spoken word vocals usually sound ridiculous.
 
Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride is outstanding. Solid enough growls, but his sung vocals are so emotive, more than anyone else I've heard. He doesn't seem to have tremendous range, but makes up for it with such tremendous skill in creating vocal moods. The song The Dreadful Hours is his most impressive, with the way he brings forth such fear, terror, and then sympathy by the end. I've yet to hear anyone with such moving vocals. His spoken parts are also excellent, see Catherine Blake. I guess having an English accent makes you a more powerful singer at times.
 
Matt Chalk - hands down.

I am also confused as to what we are calling "extreme metal"? What extreme metal has Mike Patton been involved in? Perhaps the Fantomas? I only heard one or two of their songs and from memory they didn't strike me as extreme metal. Otherwise, Faith No More, Tomahawk and Mr Bungle aren't extreme metal ... unless he has done something else.

Primordial I also wouldn't classify as "extreme metal" due to its total lack of an extreme sound (well from what I have heard on The Gathering Wilderness)

King Diamond on the other hand, I would have thought could fall into extreme metal. Melissa can be considered early black metal (despite its very NWOBHM stylings). It is to Black Metal, what Show No Mercy is to thrash.
 
misfit said:
Primordial I also wouldn't classify as "extreme metal" due to its total lack of an extreme sound (well from what I have heard on The Gathering Wilderness)
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I would definitley consider Primordial extreme metal. They started out as an atmospheric folkish black metal band. And there are even elements of black metal to be found on The Gathering Wilderness. The riffing style is quite black metallish, though the vocals are for the most part a raspy yell. It certainly isn't a power metal or trad metal album. BTW, who is Matt Chalk?
 
thanks to whoever changed the thread title. i saw glidenow on here and as much as i like him hes not extreme metal. to all the garm people, yeah he s great but i prefer his clean vocals more. i didn t quite like him the first time i came across him in borknagar but later this year i got into arcturus and really began to understand where people were coming from. his style is great. and to the greys about peter: i didn t like him the first time i heard him either. i found his vocals kinda shrill at times and a little to layered and effects laden but then i did the best thing i ever could have done. i gave hypocrisy another shot and with more listens i really began to notice the different nuances in his voice. if you listen to the final chapter or the arrival and i mean really listen you will see how he becomes like a different vocallist on every song while still being himself. take the track "war within" from the arrival where he uses about 3-4 different vocal dynamics and sounds within the same track. his screams and vocalizations on that track are un-fucking-believable and take true skill. his work with bloodbath only proved that he can go toe to toe with akerfelt and swano(who are both great in their own right) and no way can those guys match his screams and more sickly vocals even though he can match their growls. i think versatility in metal vocals should be about more than just being able to sing distorted and clean, you need to bring variety and contrast within both and i think thats where the guys like townsend, tagtgren, and garm stand out from the rest. even dani filth brings that kind of variety to the table even though i admit that i despise him when he tries to go for the death style grunts and growls. he really needs to stick with the cruelty and the beast style where he sounded best. even anders friden makes attempts to broaden his vocal horizons, taking risks and experimenting with different vocal sounds some being more successful than others but still adding variety and dynamics within songs( he did this best on clayman and stye in my opinion). with more practice and some tweeking to certain aspects of his vocals i believe that anders could be one of the best.
 
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